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Garden Notes, Making a hot bed is not a very greaj; I ask and it advanoes the season weeljs some times, when tho spring happens to be late. "With a good garden lhere is health and variety of food, both very desira ble, not to speak of the tating in of household expenses. Level culture is best for almost every crop. Hilling up is often disastrous ia a dry season, where level culture would have succeeded. It does not hurt cabbages that are buried to freeze once, but if allowed to freeze and thaw and freeze again it is spoiled. After the ridge is frozen through cover it with straw and it will not thaw out until spring. Onions will stand moro fertilizing than any other crop we know of. They are rank feeders and pay well for extra care. They do best on a loose, friable soil that will not bake after a rain, though any land that will grow corn will produce a crop. Wool Scoured with Naphtha. ?n a new method of scouring wool, naphtha is employed as the cleansing substance. By means of a pump the naphtha is forced through and through tho wool, extracting all the natural oil. It is claimed that the naphtha does not injure the fiber of the wool, as alkali cleansing, but leaves the fleeoe in bettor condition than when cleansed by any other process. A further valuable feature of the new method is that after the grease is extracted from the wool it may be again extracted from the naphtha in a pure state, thereby becoming valuable aa a medicinal agent or for a saponifi cation into the purest of soaps. It ie claimed that a plant following this method scoured 300,000 pounds of wool, and h*d saved c product of 80, 000 pounds in pure wool oil.-Scien tific American. Not Exactly. A-What, you call mo a swindler? B-No ; but I am prepared to give ten marks to the one who proves to me the contrary.-Deutsche Wespen. Out In tho Cold. Political candidates may be unexpectedly loft out in tho cold when the roturns como In, but people who elect to use Hostotter's Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia, liver, kidney or lla?der inactivity, constipation, malarial complaints or nervousness, are never left in the cold or clf-owherj. Well may physicians lend their unqnaMfled sanction lo this time honored and unfailing medicine. It is frequently more easy to detect a false hood than to discover a truth. From A ?ul illus ia. Ala. I have fully tested tho curative qualities of Tettoriuo upon several cases of Eczema of stubborn character and lung standine, with perfect suecos'. I candidly bellevo that lt will cure any ?-ase of Eczema. C. I. S. Cam thon, M. D. Seut by mail for ."50c. in stamps. J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah. Ga lt isn't always tho one who labors tho hardest that gets the reward. Dr.Kilmore S w A si r - R o OT cure* all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation f rna. Laboratory Binghamton, N. ?. . That man ?9 happy who can look upon thc success of others without envy. STATE OF Onio, CITY or TV-EDO, U LUCAS COUNTY. T , S ' FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City o? Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said rirm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL L ^RS for each aud every case of Cttarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CUKE. FRANK J. CneNEY. sworn to before me and subscribed in my oresence. this Cth dav of December, A. D. 18S?. A-; J A. W. GLEASON, 1 > Notary Public. Hall's Catan-h Cnro istaken internally and acta directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces of the Systom. Send for testimonials, free. F. J- CHEN EY & CO., Toledo. O. ?STSold by Druggists, 7>.'c. Tho management of tho A.&W.KR. R-, al ways alive to the comfort and convenience of its patrons, will put on an extra sleeping car between Atlanta and New Orleans during tbo period of the Mardi-Gras festivities at the latter point. Dla gr an? aro now ready at the office of Mr. Geo. W. Allen, T. P. A., No-12 Kimball Houst;, and those desiring to make this trip will do well to cal! on him some days in advance to secure sleeping car accommo dations. GEO- W. ALLEN, T. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. JNO. A. GES, Gen. Pass. Mt., Atlanta, Ga. School Children will eat sweetmeats and you can't prevent lt. The first youknowof it there I* a headache; the child is bilious and something must bo done. Uso Ripans Tabules, a remedy which is standard for such troubles. I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure for Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK MOUES, 215 \\. 22J St., New Torfe Oct. 23,1S34. Karl's Clover Hoot, the great blood purifier, cives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. 23 cts., 50 cts., SI Mr*. WmslowVSoothinz Syrup for children '-{?etnintr. softens tho {rums, reduces inflamma tion, al lay pain, curas wind colic. 25s. a bottle Impure Blood-Eczema Intense Itching & Burning Hood's Sarsaparilla Cured and Cave Sound Relief. I was troubled for months with a break ing out on my skin. I suffered terribly at night and had to cut my Hager nails short to keep me from scratching, T?rea physi cians did not help my caso. I had about given up In despair when a friend advised mo to try a bottle ot Hood's Sarsaparilla. It seemed as il every dose helped mo and after I hnd taken a few bottles I was entirely well and a sound man again. I proved Hood's Sar ' saparilla to be a jood blood purifier Ur. Wm. BX. Flcnniken and I gladly recom mend it to every sufferer." WILLIAM H. FLENNIKEN, Carmichaels, Pennsylwrnla. Hood's Be Sure to get HOOD'S. Bama* parilla ll t\est\1 et P i 11 et Ensvt0 tg "OOO 9rilI9 take, easy in effect. 25c I McEI-REES I WINE OF CARPUL? C I I For Female Diseases. % .EI sa^msvi^# Goct?. U55i CTKMiiti A SONG OF SLEIGH-BELLS. Joy cur bells are ringing O'er the snow ; Happiness is springing Where we go. Ll fois bright bet?re ns< Storm-clouds hang not o'er U3, Hope and faith uphold ns, Joy and love enfold ns, The while we sing, Andslelgh-bella ring! Has life e'er a sorrow? Hint not so ! Troubles shall we borrow? No, ah no ! From Hope's light-loaping fountains To fur rose-tinted mountains Full bravely wo havo started, And, merry and true-hearted, Shall gayly sins, While slei?h-balls ringi Before us Iles a hollow, Dark and low, Whose winding path wo follow, Will or no ! In that valley lowly Shadows deep may slowly Hide the moon, declining, Still wo know her shining I So gayly sing, While sleigh-bells ring ! -Helen Evertson Smith, in Harper's Bazar. Tact of Miss Aspinwall-Jones. BI WILLIAM EARLE BALDWIN. ISS ASPINWALL Jones has watch ed it from the very begiuning with the interest most people take in other people's love affairs, and she feels exceed ingly 6orry that it bas all gone wrong; that is, she is sorry for Laurie Jerome. She thinks Agnes Lancaster most unreasonable and posi tively unforgiving. Mina A spin wall-Jones is not a med dler, but she thinks this particular affair is her own private property, for if the final quarrel did not take place under ber own roof, it did take place not far from her tennis court, at a tennis party late in the autumn. At that time Agnes Lancaster was very positive that she loved Laurie Jerome. In fact, she was engaged to him. But this did not keep ber from enjoying exceedingly the Bociety of other men. This, and Jerome's nat ural jealously, caused a great deal of trouble, '.rhich culminated on the ten nis court that afternoon. It was done very quietly, as all serious things are done. There were no tears, no dra matic stalking about, no words of auger. Jerome idly knocked a tennis ball up into tbs air with bis i^jket, as be listened to what the girl had to say, and when ehe remarked that it was better that they separate, and that it was plainly more for their good to be apart for the rest of their lives, he assented quietly and did not stop counting the numbers of times the ball went up into the air. "Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one," be sn id, mechanically. "There is nothing more to say or do," declared the girl. "We have made a mistake, that's all." "Thirty-five, thirty-six," counted Jerome, bis eyes still on the balL "I am as muoh to blame as you," admitted the girl. "I don't suppose you mind much, though." Crash! went the ball down on the table into tb.6 midst of a cluster of lem onade glasses. "Did I break any?" asked, Jerome, looking at them anxiously. "No, I think not," replied Agnes, with equal interest. Miss Aspinwall-Jones saw it all, and beard it all, and yet she was quito helpless and unable to do anything. When Jerome came up to say good bye, she wanted to tell bim bow very sorry she was, but she knew it wouid hardly do. And the drawn look on his face, when he told her he was going Weat for some hunting and shooting, haunted her for many days after. And all tho while Jerome was far away after big game and even in some little danger, Miss Aspinwall-Jones did not forget, by any means, bim. The moment be came bask, she sent him an invitation to ber bowling party, together with a charming little note. This was very pleasant to Je rome, who had been out of civilization for fco long, and be made baste to ac cept. As he comos into the bowling alley, be stands near the entrance a mo ment, hesitating. There is a groat deal of confusion ; snatches of conver sation, the shouts of the boys in the pit, the crashing of pins, and the dull booming of the balls, mingled with exclamations of joy or lit ile cries of chagrin, all adding to Jerome's bewil derment, make him feel more out of it than ever. Sometimes a large ball rolls lazily down tho center to hit the king pin and clears the alley as if a tempest had struck it. Sometimes a small ball skips down the smooth boards for a single pin, knocking it up into the air with a loud "plunk!" Sometimes a ball whirls along the very edge, twist ing and. curving in until it strikes the king pin a little to one side, knocking all ten pius into the pit with the pecu liar musical tone which gladdens the bowler's heart. How brightly the sun shines in at the windows of the place, lighting np the faces of the people, glancing on the polished maple of the alleys and the smooth rolling balls! How the motes in thc air rise and fall and 6way and pulsate, turning red and green and orange, and answering every wave and motion of the air, and writhe and turn into many glistening bands 1 How happy und jolly the people are, and how they laugh, as if they hadn't a care in the world and as if bowling was the only thing worth living for ! Miss Aspinwall-Jones draws near at that moment and sees Jerome standing there. Her face lights up with a corelia' greeting, and she says: "Why, Mri Jerome, I am awfully glad to see you.'. And that the man is very popular is made ovident by the fact that a great many people come np and shake bands with him and say they are glad to see him back. And the men say, "Hello, Laurie, old fellow," and Miss Aspin wall-Jones, who believes in rushing things, adds: "You are just in time to bowl on number three with Agnes." " Jerome looks at the girl beseeching ly, and she nods brightly and says : "Why not?" Jerome laughs uneasily and echoes : "Why not?" And then be pulls at bis mustache, and frowDs in a rude and most unbecoming manner. "At least," puts in Miss Aspinwall Jones with a meaning smile, "I can remember the time when you would give anything to see ber. I have heard of a man who wrote poetry to her and walked up and down under her window with a guitar." "Oh, 1 say !" protests the unf< nato Jerome. '.Well, didn't you?" "That was last summer, things, you know, have sort of changed, you see." "Changed?" There is a not guilelessness in Miss Aspinwall-Joi voioe that is pretty and childish. "How much does she know?" q ies Jerome anxiously to himself. "I won't tease you any more," M?8B Aspinwall-Jones. "Only the one thing I must say-you don't derstand girls." "Who does?" remarked the 1 "And I must say I don't unders you," he added, rather cynically. "Who does?" echoes the girl, a laugh. "Perhaps-some time will." They have reached alley nut three, and a tall girl is standing t eyeing them with much coolness evidently with muoh disfavor. "Agnes, here is Mr. Jerome, au is going to bowl with you," says Aspinwall-Jones. "He has just c back from Kansas, and if you lik will tell you all about shooting, all about the gasoline stove that b up regularly every night." Agnes looks from one to the o and laughs with embarrassment, knows that Miss-Aspinwall-Jone very clever, and while she knows ag many things she is liable to guess great many more ; and even +hc she is her most intimate friei. would never, never like her to * what she is thinking about. Ant she laughs and says civilly : "I very glad to see- you again, Jerome. " And then she turns to '. Aspinwall-Jones, and asks in a ] zled way: "Gasoline stove? v about a gasoline stove?" But Miss Aspinwall-Jones has fli away, leaving Jerome and Agnes gether ; and from the other side of room she smiles back contentedly, tie knowing that Agnes is ready tc solve never to speak to her again, that Jerome is wishing heartily t he had remained out in Kansas wi he could shoot all day and not 1 to talk with young women who are tant and scornful, and who make feel that he is very much in the v Even the incident of the gaso stove fails to establish easy rolatii and he starts in ou another story wh however, is nipped in the bud. On the other side of the room, ? Aspinwall-Jones sees them talking says : "I have got them together," congratulates herself on her tact. I Aspinwall-Jones is very young, and ideas of doing good to other pee often lead,to coaiplioation3. In the present instance they leac a great many coaiplica'ions. Agni very intent on bowling, and Jer< shows that he has forgotten all ab it. When she makes a strike Jere follows it up with a score of tl pins, and two balls in tho gutter, becomes very angry, writes his ti on the wrong side of the blackbc and covers his fingers, his coat everything in sight with chalk. Then it is a pleasure to see Ag bowl, and he forgets everything ia watching her. Her figure is supe tall and willowy, and, with a lo graceful swing of the arm, she sene ball down the alley. She holds head in a queenly way, and eight ? sons in society have not dimmed beauty and sparkle of her dark ej nor made havoc with the damask her clear complexion. "Why don't you roll?" Bhe a; presently, as Jerome stands before a moment, looking at her intenl Tho pins at tho foot of tho alley h all been set up, and there is a pause tb.6 bowling. She points a bit of ch at him and smiles bewitchingly in a v that makes Jerome lose his head. "What do I care about thia stu bowling?" he says, passionate "What do I care about any thin? but you? You know why I went aw, and von ought to know why I ca back." Agnes looks coldly at him. "Y I ought to know. I certainly ape plainly to you six months ago. think there is no need to sayanyth more." "There are a great many things say," continued Jerome, "if I o; knew how to say them." "I don't see that you need t help, " remarks the girl, dryly. A then : "Miss Aspinwall Jones is ginning to look worried because i sees that you are not bowling. " Jerome seizes a huge ball aud hu it down the alley at a tr?mend< speed. Straight as a die it rolls do the centre; there is a crash a. strikes the king pin, and then all 1 pins with on9 accord topple into \ pit. Tho bowling assumes a new aspei it is something to occupy his mil He says nothing more, except: "What you told me six months a final, is then?" And the girl, with tightly compres; lips, mutters: "Yes." Bang ! go the balls down the ali uow. The pin-boys wonder what I come into that tall, dark-haired mc that ha is so reckless. He nearly ki two of them, when they shout bac "Take care, there!" and Jeroi echoes "Take care!" He feels that o boy more or less is of no consequeni and he begins to be very polite a talk commonplaces with Agnes La caster. Has she been having a goi time this winter? and is she going o much? and are there to be a gre many dances ? He says that he is sor he is not going to be there, for he h had a great mauy charming walt2 with Miss Lancaster, and ho won like to have a great many more. A: until the bowling party ia over talks about a great many things whi he forgets the moment they are sai And when the people begin to : and Agnes leaves him, Jerome i mains with Mis3 Aspinwall-Jones at a lot of people he hasn't seen for long time. He enjoys himself thc oughly until it suddenly occurs him that he .ought to be ve miserable. But when he leaves tl building and walks home alone 1 finds himself bitterly regretting th it is all over with Agnes. It has been thawing all day and tl walks are covered with slush. Jeron has to pass through ,a narrow stree and he sees the outlines of tall buil ings against tho clear sky. A whistl blows in a factory not far awa Sleighs grate along the streets. whi< ore denuded of snow, so that the bai stones show here and there in patche The water streams across the walk i places, through which Jerome splash recklessly. As he walks absently t< ward his room he unwittingly cuts number of his acquaintances. He realizes for the first time that I is getting old. The familiar stree that seem unfamiliar with their li: and bustle, and the cries of the new boys and the sound of cabs and dra and sleighs, and the familiar old buil< ings-ali these things force then selves on his mind in a way that maki him realizo how far back his memoi goes, and how long ago are the goc times that have gone. He dines with a half dozen men at h sr le ?o is ie it io ie le ?y .a id ?S ie h r? a rf i te 3, )f ?. jr r. re in' k 7 A r. club and reconsiders his determination not to go to the dance that night at Miss Aspin wall-Jones's. The good comrade ship rather palls him oat of his fit of the blues and be gets away early for a short walk by himself, and then he goes over to the dance. When he gets to the honse there is a misunderstand ing somewhere. Jerome is sent up stairs and goes absently into the room assigned to the men for the coats-at least Jerome thinks it is the room. Ii is dimly lighted, and be throws big coat down on a chair and feels for a oigarette, for it is very early, and he means to while away the time until some of the other men come. Then, all at once, from a far corner of the room, he bears something that sounds very much like a sob. And be sees the figure of a girl, with her back to ward him, and her head bowed. "Odd," he mutters. "Very odd, indeed. Deuced awkward, too, by Jove! Better get out ! Stupidity some where !" But Jerome does not go oat, for he recognizes something in the turn o! the shoulders that are bent away from him, andinsteadof escaping he merely stands there pulling nervously at t glove. He steps forward and then stop3 again, hesitating. Then all at once the girl draws herself up and st?nde looking at him blankly. Jt is Agnes ! It does not occur to Jerome that be should account for his presence. All minor considerations are swept aside, and he knows that the one last chance has come. He draws back, however, for she may only frown and look bored, and answer in that cold and flippant man ner of hers he knows so well. But Jerome has not seen the pained looli in her eyes give way and lose itself the moment she caught sight of bim. Man like he has not fathomed the'meaning of the gleaming as it flashes forth one brief instant only to be veiled by the lowered lids that close over those tell tale eyes. He only knows that the tears are gone from her face, and that down stairs in the music room the; are playing "In Old Madrid." The long swaying rhythm of the Spanish musio comes up to them like the sound of water beating on a fai away beach. His step unconsciously keeps time to the music, his arms are stretched out, and the cold, self-pos sessed young woman of the afternoon forgets herself, for she does not repel him-and Agne3 Lancaster, who bas made a brave fight against love, is de feated at last. "I acted very badly," she admits at length} "shockingly! And I wondered how you would take it ; and do yon know, I rather liked you tho better for getting so very angry. You are so amusing when your aro angry? 1 didn't mind so much when you first went away? but afterward-I got -ac tired of everyone! . Somehow it seemed-" here she looks up into hie face with a happy little smile. "Yon know, it seemed as if-I conldn't-1 live without you." Mis3 Aspinwall-Jones, strange as it may seem, happens to look into the room just at this orisis, and catches the last few words. She slips away unseen, and when more people come up the stairs, she manages to detain them. "He said there was some stupid blander," one of the giris remarked later in the evening, speaking of the incident, "and ho added he was aw fully sorry, althoagb be did not seam to worry at all. He took his coat and things and escaped to where he be longed. Some stupid blunder ! D< you know, I can hardly believe that.' And the clever Mi6S Asp in wal I-Jones, who overhears this, smiles, for. jibe prides herself on her tact.-Outing. Fell First In tho Revolution. Hezekiah Butterworth, in "Th( Patriotic Schoolmaster," says that the first person to fall in the war of the Revolution was not Crispus Attucks, but a boy. If Attucks, who fell by ai accidental encounter, merits a monu ment as the first who fell for liberty so does this boy. There were a few merchants in Bos ton who continued to sell taxed arti cles ; thoy came to be despised and hated. The boys, in their hasty pa triotiscn, made on a placard a list o', the names of tbose who imported anc sold proscribed artioles, and put in oi a pole that bore a wooden head anc hand. They set this image up before an importer's door, with the woodei hand pointing toward it, and thii made the importer angry, and he firec a musket into the crowd of boys, Christopher Gore, afterwards Gov ernor of Massachusetts, was slightly wounded. Little Christopher Snyder, a boj whose mother was a widow, and whe had followed the spirit of the times fell mortally wounded. They took UT his form and bore it away, and the whole city wept. Never in Americe was there a boy's funeral like his. The} made him a patriot's collin and bore hi? form to the Liberty Tree, which stooc near tho present corner of Washing ton and Esses streets. On the cofflr was this motto : "Innocence itself ie not safe." The boys of nearly all the sohools, some 600 in number, gath ered around the body as au eseort. Tho bells tolled, business was closed, and some ?500 people followed the first martyr to the grave. As the procession marched, not only the bells of Boston, but those of thc neighboring towns were heard tolling, It was almost spring, and there was t mellowness in the air. That processior was a prophecy of the events to come, a protest against tho injustice of the royal power. The sons of liberty should remember little Snyder': grave. -Detroit Free Press. Future ot Artificial Foods. Tho chemists of America, who have just held a general meeting in Boston, do not think chemical beefsteak and other foods in sight for tho humar raoe just at present, though chemistrj has done much to develop the science of cookery, and given great variety tc food and drink by the many essencee of flowers and fruits that have beer elaborated in the laboratory. The col leges of agriculture, and .the agrono mic experiment stations, of whicl there are now fifty-seven, have done so much to increase the productive ness of the soil, and to reclaim un productive lands, that Dr. Wiley, thc retiring President of the Chemical As sociation, thinks that "there is no economic reason for looking outside of soientifio agriculture for the pro duction of human food." On the other hand Berthelot, an eminent European ohemist, publicly proclaims his theory that artificial foods are in time to suppress thoso of nature ; a time when the covering of the earth will be for beauty, as in a pleasure park, and not 'Refaced by agricul ture."-New York Post. Rev. George E. Ellis, of Boston, left Harvard University alargo sum oJ money to bc usc] at the discretion oj the Trustees, providing none of it wai f.pent to further theological education, BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. , One Valentine-A Woman's Idea-All , He Needed Was Time-One at a Time-A Spot That Would Out, Etc. 1 I remember how lovely she was, . I remember it clearly, beoause ? There are somo things one cannot forget. I swore by tho light of her eyes, I measured her love by my sighs, i And I might have been rtoing It yet, ! Had it not been for St. Valentine I A."? expressed lu ber wishes and mine, lu a manner I did not expect. I sent her tho be3t I coull buy ; A twenty it cost-they come high I mean fine ones, imported direct. T sen": her tho dear valentine, ..To ono dearer, I hoped to be mine." Thoa I waited to get one from her, ? And I got oue-no fate could prevent She sent back the ono that I sent, With an unkfnl and emphatic "No, sir " j I remombor how costly it was, I remember it clearly, because i There aro some things one cannot forget. i A WOMAN'S IDEA. Dentist- ' 'Madam, you will have to have some bridge-work in your ! month." i Patient-"All right, doctor-sus ! pension or cantalever."-Judge. - L ^ NOT IMPROBABLE. Paddington-"Do you know what I am going to do with the first one hun dred dollars I earn?" Elaine-"Pay your entrance fee to a home for aged and infirm men." Truth. ALL HE NEEDED WAS TIME. The Husband (bitterly)-"I wish I had known as much before I was mar ried as I do now." The Wife-"So do t You might really have amounted to something by this time. "-Life. A SPOT THAT WOULD OUT. Little Boy-"That ink that papa writes with isn't indelible ink, is it?" Mother- "No." .Tm glad ol that." "Why?" "I've spilt it all over the carpet." Good New6. SOMEWHAT HALTING. ? Teacher -1 'Why didn't your brother como to school to-day, Johnny?" Johnny-"He hurt his foot this i mornin' so he couldn't hardly walk." 1 Teacher-"That's a lame excuse; L but I euppose I must accept it. " South Boston News. ora AT A TIME. Holworthy, '95 (to small street Arab, with whom he has just collided) -"Be careful, boy! Why don't you look where you're going?" Small Street Arab-"Why don't you? There's no need o' two lookinV -Harvard Lampoon. ; NOT SO WONDERFUL AS HE THINKS lt 18. Husband (with desire to say some thing pleasant) -"Do you "know, kit ten, I could recognize you from your style anywhere?" Kitten- -"I should think you could, seeing that you have let me wear this same style for two years." 1 A SUGGESTION. I Featherstone-"I've just dashed off a few verses and put them inside of I this valentine tor Miss Summit, and I only hope she'll read them." Piugway-"You would better let me ! address the envelope. Sha knows your handwriting. "-Life. WRECKED. i "Is there any history attached to J this ragged old hat?" asked the visitor. ? "lt looks as if it had been in a pow der-mill explosion." "No ; it belonged to a Russian gen eral," said the museum owner. "Oh ! And he tried to talk through it, eh?"-Cincinnati Tribune. WORKING JONES FOR IT. "Smith is a good natured man." "Why do you say so?'' "Jones is telling him all the cute, things his baby says, and Smith is laughing heartily end seems inter ested." "Smith wanted to borrow $5 from me just now and I couldn't let him have it."-Nev,- York Press. LONG-DISTANCE VIEWS. "Out in Oregon," said a man from that State, "tho air is so clear that you can see the peak of Mount Shasta, in California, from the peak of Mount Hood, in Oregon, a distance of 276 miles." "Here in the East we can see much farther than that." "0, como now." "It's a fact. The moon ia 219,000 miles away, but we caa see it on a clear night."-Life. VALUE OF SCIENCE. A man with a spade was loading a pile of earth into a cart when Profes sor Snore, who is very learned, asked him what he was doing. Upon hear ing the man's explanation the profes sor said : "Why don't you dig a hole and pat tho pile of earth into it?" "What would become of the earth I'd dig out of the hole?" "Make the hole big enough to hold both. Why don't you uso your brains, or haven't you got any?" and the professor passed on with a superior smile-Texas Siftings. HOW SHE REMEMBERED. Binks-"I don't see how you can remember thu birthdays of all the children." Mrs. Binks-"It's very easy. The first was born on August 17. I re member it because ou that day you gave mo a pearl necklace with my name and tho date on the clasp. The second was born July 20. On that day you gave mo a lifty-cent book with my name on the fly-leaf. The third was born May G. Oi> that day you got mad ut a millinery bill which had just boen sent in, and it isn't paid yet."-New York Weekly. IN BONDAGE. Her eyes were wild, her hair was in disorder, her face was flushed, her hands were clinched. She was a deeply injured and desperate woman. "Oh, cruel one," sho cried in an guished tone?, "I have borne with you too long! You have injured tho very foundation of my being ! Day by day you have tortured me, and yet I could not bear to give you up. When first wo met, how your ease and polish attracted me ! When you be came my own, how my friends envied me ! But your understanding is too small for my large soul. You are op posed to my advancing myself. You have injured my standing in society. If wo had never met 1 might have walked in pence. So now begone. We part forever." There vas a moment's convulsivo breathing, a gritting of teeth and a sharp sigh. It was all over. By a supreme effort she had pulled off hei ne w shoe.-Judge. WORDS OF WISDOM. Vulgarity means mediocrity. Debt depresses the sensitive. The law's delays pile up fees. Delay is sometimes judicious. A quill pen is as good as gold. We unconsciously judge all men by ourselves. No one deserves high praise for do ing his duty. Beading and travel are both fine mental feeding. A man who does his best does not deserve censure. Women admire handsome men, and love homely ones. Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them. A man habitually malicious must be habitually miserable. A man's company is material in making his reputation. Advice to the young man who wants to get good pay-earn it. Some people are too intellectual, a? some people are too nice. How far better to win by kindness than to conquer by violence. Let your performance always sur pass and excel your promises. A wise man discovers by patient study what a fool stumbles upon. While a man is thinking how a thing ought to be done a woman will do it.-The Great West. A Remarkable Oil Well. The Kirkbride No. 1 Oil Wellie located in Madison township, Sandus ky County, Ohio. The flow of oil commenced November 18th. The spectacle is described as one of the most magnificent eve? witnessed in that part of the country. First ap peared a column or water rising eight or ten feet in the air ; this was fol lowed by a black stream of mud and sand which gradually changed to yel low ; then, with a deafening roar, the gas burst forth in an immense volume, hiding the derrick from view. As this cleared away a solid golden column a foot in diameter, shot from the der rick floor a hundred feet into the air, there breaking into fragments and fal ling in a shower of yellow rain for a quarter of a mile around. For a pe riod of flvo hours this great column of oil shot upward. In a very few mo* ments the field about the well was covered several inches deep with pe troleum ; within three or lour hours, the ditches for miles around were over flowing with oil. Dams weare con structed in order that the product might be estimated, but these were overflowed and swept away as rapidly as built. Some persons living in thc vicinity, alarmed at tho spectacle, packed their household goods and fled. The Buckeye Pumping Station a mile distant was compelled to ex tinguish its fires on account of the gas, and all other fires within the dis trict were put out. It was a literal flood of oil, the estimate production for the first twenty-four hours being 14,560,000 gallons. About eighteen thousand barrels per day have been saved and marketed since the oil has been brought under full control. The owner has refused an offer of five hun dred thousand dollars for the -well, being content with the income of ten thousand dollars per day which it af fords him. -Frank Leslie's Weekly, Hie Justice's Wedding Fee. A few clays since a couple from Bur lington, Vt., visited Plattsburg in search of a magistrate who would tie the nuptial kuot. When the mar riage ceremony was over the groom wanted the Justice to kiss the bride, saying : "Squire* you kiss her first." Tho Squire did as ha was requested. The groom asked him how much his bill was. The Squire, highly elated, Baid: "Well, youngman, seeing as it is you, I will call it $5. " "All right," said the groom? "you have had a kiss, haven't you?" "Yes," said the Squire. "Weil, then, you give mo a receipt and I will give you $2, and that will make it square; "The Justice hesitated a moment? and said: "How do you make that out?" "Well,"said the groom, "you have married us, haven't you, and you have charged mo 35?" "iTes." "And you have taken the first kiss from the bride?" "Yes." "Well, I have charged yon S3 for it, and that leaves $2 due you." "Very well," said the Squire, "if that is so, 1 will take the other two now," and as he was m the act of kissing the bride agaiu the groom drew off and gave tho Justice a left hander that knocked him to tho floor. The result was that tho groom was ar rested, and when arraigned pleaded guilty and was fined ?5 and costsi Both the Justice and tba groom hare concluded that they are better and wiser men than before this happened -Albany Democrat. - HT. Effect of Bullets on the Skelctoa. In the museum at Washington, may be seen, for the edification of sur geons, the effects of projectiles on the human scaffold. One sad looking skull grins at you, irita the nola s ball has made clean through the mid dle of the forehead. Fractures of the arm and leg bones aro common, and tho tracks of the mime balls plainly shown. In archaeological research we can find exactly the same things, show ing how man repeats his actions. The examples are numerous. A humau tibia of the time of tli9 cave dwellers shows the actual flintheaded arrow which has pierced the bones. In Bel gium there was found a human parie tal bono, with the flint axe still buried in the skull. lu Scotland, a skeleton of remarkable size was exhumed, with one arm separated from the body, and in tho bone was found the fragment of an axe of diorite, of the neolithic period. We kill much more efficiently to-day, but only because the human target has remained the same as in th a prehistoric period. The attack ha3 mastered the resistance.-New York Times. Au Old Revolutionary Camp. A few days ago the workmen em. ployed in this city when making the extension of Ninth avenue near 201st street, near the Harlem River and Sherman's Creek, came aoross the traces of an old Revolutionary camp. Mr. Saville, of the Museum of Natural History, unfortunately, had the fact announced to him too lute, but was as soon as possible on the spot. He found at a depth of flvo feet the rem nants of a brick hearth, portions of an iron crane, au old lock, and but- . tons belonging to the royal provincial I troops of the Seventeenth and Thirty- ) third Regiments. There was a hand- j some glass fluted bottle and fragments of glass. Some of the workmen'found J English penny pieo?s, the oldest being of 1732.-New York Times, Highest of all in Leavening Pow Perfumes as Preventives of Mould iness. Mouldiness is occasioned by the growth of minuto vegetation. Ink, paste, leather and seed most frequent ly suffer by it. A clovo will preserve ink ; any essential oil answers equally as well. Leather may bo kept free from mould by the 6arae substances. Thu?, Russian leather, which is per fumed with the tar of birch, never bo oome mouldly; indeed, it prevents it from oocuring in other bodies. A few drops of any ossential oil will keep books entirely free from it. For har ness, oil of turpentine is recom mended. Alum and resin are used to preserve bookbinders' paste, but ineffectually, oil of turpentine succeeds better ; but, by small quantities of oil of pepper mint, anise, or cassia, pasto has been preserved for years. Dr. MacCulloch recommends tho addition to the flour and water of some brown sugar and a little corrosive sublimate; the sugar keeping it flexiblo when dry, and thc sublimate preventing it from ferment ing and from being attacked by in sects. A few drops of any essential oil may bs added to tho paste when it is made. It dries when exposed to the air and may be used merely by wetting it. Seeds may also be pre served hy the essential oils ; and this is of great consequence when they are sent to a distance. Of course mois ture must be excluded as much as pos sible, as the oils or ottos prevent only the bad effects of mould.-Ex. To Make a Chair Cushion. Not a new way, but a very good and simple way to mako a chair cushion is as follows: When it is desired to give the cushion height, square corners may be secured by turning in tho corners, after the cushion is filled, and sewing together the two vertical edges thus formed; the amount turned in decides the heighth or thickness of the cushion. This is much smaller than the sewing of a strip between the top and bottom of the cushion. In covering the same plan may bo pursued, except that the material for the top should be cut largo enough to cover the sides and front, turning over the lower edge where it may be faced with anything conven ient. If preferred, the cushion proper may be made in the way described, and the cover made with a strip of the same or a contrasting material sewed between top and bottom to form the Bides.- Womankind. Cure for a Cold. When the unmistakable indications of a had cold are felt a glass of hot lemonade before going to bed will sometimes correct the mischief.' Thc feet may be soaked in hot water with a couple of tablespoonfuls of mustard stirred in it if the cold is in the head. But when this is done warmer stock ings than usual should be worn the next day. If the chest is sore, it may n^rubbei-with warm^oiToT"spirits of turpentine, and an extra layer of flan nel placed next the skin before going out.-Good Housekeeping. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The roany,*who live bet ter ??au others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, disnelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neve, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it 13 perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of .'Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and$1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also- the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not Except any substitute ii offered. TOBACCO M?if business: lnrgft?t tobacco seed fara In the world. Reputation of our weds ?coonil to noan. Catalogue raallrd free. 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